People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product.

Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but that really doesn't mean that the GPL is any way inherently superior - it depends on what you want the license to do.

Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.

I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

I actually don't believe that everybody should necessarily try to learn to code. I think it's reasonably specialized, and nobody really expects most people to have to do it. It's not like knowing how to read and write and do basic math.